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- [Narrator] The 2018 Air Force
Defender Challenge at JBSA

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Camp Bullis, Texas, pitted 14
MAJCOM level security forces

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teams against one another
in head-to-head competition.

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It also provided and opportunity
for distinguished guests

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and attendees to view and
handle two new weapons that will

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become standard issue for
security forces, the M18 pistol

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and the M320 grenade launcher.

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Lieutenant Colonel Carlos
Hernandez, director of the

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2018 Defender Challenge
was highly pleased with

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the new pistol

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- [Hernandez] That thing
is phenomenal. The trigger

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pull on that is smooth,
it's a lot more compact, and

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it feels more like a solid piece
of machinery in your hands.

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- [Narrator] Guests which
sample new weapon were equally

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impressed with the Sig
Sauer manufactured M18.

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They found it easy to hold, aim, and fire.

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Others tested out the M320
grenade launcher. They had the

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opportunity to fire non-lethal
paint and bean bag rounds

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at short and long-range targets.

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- [Hernandez] I think it's
gonna be a great addition tool

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for the toolbox and provide
our airmen better tools

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out in the battlefield.

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- [Narrator] For the Air
Force Installation Mission

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Support

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Center, I'm James Truitt.